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[Q] Installing CyanogenMod on Nexus S 4G?

I am a total noob and am having trouble installing CyanogenMod onto my Nexus S 4G. I barely rooted the darn thing, and I am using a guide that involves ROM Manager. It says I have to mount the SD card using ROM Manager, but I can't figure out how to. If there is a better way to install CyanogenMod, please tell me, because all the guides I have been finding are way too technical for me to understand, and I have been trying. Any help is appreciated.

Can you tell us which guide you are using and which step you are on? I think you must mean ClockworkMod not ROM Manager.
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If you already have clock work then all you have to do is drag and drop cyanogen into the root of your sd card. Then flash through clock work.

ht tp://ww w.redmondpie.com/install-cyanogenmod-7.1-gingerbread-rom-on-nexus-s-4g-how-to-tutorial/
That's the guide I was using, I got stuck on step 4.
Is the rom the .zip file I downloaded from the cyanogen site, or is it inside the folder?

The rom is the zip file. Boot into recovery and select choose zip from sd and navigate to it and install it.make sure to do a back up and wipe cache,dalvic and do a factory rest before flashing the rom
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Paleryder said:
make sure to do a back up and wipe cache,dalvic and do a factory rest before flashing the rom
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Can you explain this part more? Is this the part of the guide that says "make a nandroid backup"?

1. Mount USB and drag and drop cm7 zip & Google apps into root of SD card.
2. Turn off nexus.
3. Boot into fastboot by holding volume up and then power button.
4. In fastboot go to recovery (power button is used as enter button, volume buttons represent up and down)
5. In recovery go to backup and restore and back up your current rom.
6. Go back and then wipe data factory reset and also wipe cache.
7. Go to advanced -> Wipe delvik cache.
8. Go back and then go to install zip from SD, find cm7 flash it, then flash Google apps. You can flash kernel right now if you want.
Hope this clears anything up
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I got to your step 5, but when I choose Recovery, after showing the Google logo it briefly shows a box and an arrow coming out of the box and an Android logo, then the box changes to a triangle with an exclamation mark. It stayed like that so I just rebooted the phone.

seb0910 said:
I got to your step 5, but when I choose Recovery, after showing the Google logo it briefly shows a box and an arrow coming out of the box and an Android logo, then the box changes to a triangle with an exclamation mark. It stayed like that so I just rebooted the phone.
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That means you don't have Clockwork recovery installed. You need to download the latest Clockwork recovery image and place it in the tools folder of your Android SDK Folder(wherever you placed it). Then press shift and right click on the tools folder and select "open command prompt here". Then boot your phone into bootloader by pressing volume up and power button at the same time. Connect your phone to your computer via usb cable and in the command prompt you opened type: fastboot flash recovery name of recovery image here.img and press enter and you will see in the command prompt window it will say sending image. When it is done scroll down to recovery on your phone using the volume buttons and press power to enter. Your phone will reboot into Clockwork recovery and from there you can continue on the previous posts steps. Hope this helps. You can download the latest Clockwork by going to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078213 and clicking on the brown "CWM Recovery" under 'How to: Root the Nexus S 4G'.

well I'm pretty sure I do have clockwork because there's a folder on my phone that is called clockworkmod, and I did root the phone successfully at the very least, but I'll try putting a new one there.

seb0910 said:
well I'm pretty sure I do have clockwork because there's a folder on my phone that is called clockworkmod, and I did root the phone successfully at the very least, but I'll try putting a new one there.
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Alright here is a little run down on whats going on with your ns4g, you probably already flash clockworkmod on your nexus, but what samsung did was that it will try to revert back to the stock recovery. So what you have to do is flash Clockworkmod again to make it stick. Honestly it is good that it doesn't stick because then it would be easier to unroot the phone.
So now you have 2 different options on how to flash clockworkmod. 1) you can do it through fastboot but you have to have adb set up. I'm not sure what method you used to root your phone so i am just assuming.
2) you can download rom manager and flash clockwork through there. (Honestly i haven't done it through this method so i cant tell you of the pros or cons that are attributed with this).
NOTE: If you dont have super user yet it would be a prime time to flash it once you got CWM going.
For me, I only needed to flash clock work twice through fastboot in order to make it stick.
Good luck.

The guide I originally was using for this had me using rom manager, but it kept telling me I had to mount the SD card even though it was shown up in my computer.
If I were to flash clockwork again with adb setup, how would I do that? Sorry to be so asky, I just want this process to end correctly.

You have to set up adb if you don't have it already, go to ns4g development and go to vandam's thread that has all the list of rom's and rooting guides. Check out wolverines rooting guide, he goes indepth on how to set up adb. It make take awhile to set up but learning how to work in fastboot is essential in rooting the nexus.
Good luck
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Well it was confusing and I almost asked for help again, but I finally got it flashed again and now cyanogen is working. I really appreciate the help and for pointing neon the right direction. As a final note, is there anything else I should know, like updating or something, just general knowledge (basically, "now what?")?

seb0910 said:
Well it was confusing and I almost asked for help again, but I finally got it flashed again and now cyanogen is working. I really appreciate the help and for pointing neon the right direction. As a final note, is there anything else I should know, like updating or something, just general knowledge (basically, "now what?")?
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Did you get all the Google Apps installed too? That's the only "unusual" aspect of CyanogenMod.

Yep I got the Google apps.

Congrats dude its good you got it all working, BTW when ever you switch roms like from CM7 to miui you always have to wipe data, cache, and delvik cache. Delvik cache is in the advanced tab of CWM. If your just up updating from different versions of the same rom, you just need to wipe cache and delvik cache. That's about it, the hard part is done, enjoy flashing.

chewbz said:
Congrats dude its good you got it all working, BTW when ever you switch roms like from CM7 to miui you always have to wipe data, cache, and delvik cache. Delvik cache is in the advanced tab of CWM. If your just up updating from different versions of the same rom, you just need to wipe cache and delvik cache. That's about it, the hard part is done, enjoy flashing.
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Actually if you are updating from different versions of the same rom, you don't need to wipe anything, you just flash it.

[Q] OMG!! Help!

Hi, i'm new here so i can't post in the development section.
I have a xoom wi-fi only US version and things have gone terribly wrong. I had unlocked bootloader + Android 3.2 rooted and i was trying to install a theme by using the clockwork mod recovery, but after I did it just kept replaying the boot animation and would not actually start. I freaked out and used clockwork recovery to format user data, cache, /system and the like. Now i can't get off the Motorola screen and i was wondering if there is a way to reinstall (the latest rooted version of) android on my device. Someone please help me, and if you can can you walk me through it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

have you tried downloading another version, put it on your SD card and flash it from CWM recovery?

This forum may be able to help you as well...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1209341

i suggest u to flash a new rom instead.

Ok, I have the latest rooted version of android here on my PC.
How exactly do I get it installed onto my xoom? I am aware that you can use adb but can you please go over the exact procedure? (i got it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242524) Thanks that would be very helpful. I just want my device back

How do u do that using ADB? Please help!

Neardood1 said:
How do u do that using ADB? Please help!
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ok first off just relax and you posted this in the right section... General or Q&A is where you post questions not Development so you are ok. Now on to your issue, download another rooted rom preferably Tiamat from here. Follow instructions on how to flash the file and that should get you back up and running. Now no need to ask for specifics and wait for it since all OP's in Development will instruct you on what to do.
Also did you make a backup, if you did it would be easier to just flash that. Hope it helps and dont panic. Next time make a backup before flashing themes. Oh yea if you still have the original rom you were running on your sd card just flash that again. If you still have an issue after flashing then do a factory reset wipe in CWM and try and reboot.
So basically your gonna try and flash a rom to see what happens... Any rom you have...

Ok, so i've copied it onto the micro SD card from my phone, there's a lot of other crap in there but I've just put it on into root (not in any folders). Now, how exactly do i install it because the thread just says to "install rom". i'm in clockwork recovery now, what do i select to get it to install?

I have ClocworkMod Recovery v4.0.0.4, and there doesn't seem to be an external sd card option, just the /sdcard directory from within android. Does this mean that I have to find a way to flash the rom into that directory using fastboot or something? If so, pleese just tell me how.

Neardood1 said:
I have ClocworkMod Recovery v4.0.0.4, and there doesn't seem to be an external sd card option, just the /sdcard directory from within android. Does this mean that I have to find a way to flash the rom into that directory using fastboot or something? If so, pleese just tell me how.
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My friend this is why I told you to follow OPs instruction. How did you flash your last rom or get rooted in the first place. This procedure is no different, relax and read the options in clockwork and it with will all come to you. You are installing/flashing a rom so it would be install from zip. Since I may not be on here to help you when your ready this is why I stress reading the intructions. They will give your answers
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You're still not helping me, and neither is the other posts; their not specific enough. just tell me how to flash a rom to my /sdcard directory so i can use it in clockwork mod. What commands from my PC do i enter to transfer the .zip???

Hooray!!!
Yay! I've managed to fix my xoom by flashing a stock android 3.0 rom to it. Thank you to everyone involved who took the time to help me, although none of your advice was relevant to the way i fixed it.
For the sake of anyone who was in the same predicamant as me, the steps I took to fix it were:
1) Go to this http://developer.motorola.com/products/software/ link and download the US release (122 mb, down the bottom of first table)
2) Unzip it and extract the contents (should be a set of .img files) to your android-sdk/tools folder
3) Put your xoom into fastboot mode (power on and during the motorola logo repeatedly press volume down until the menu appears in top left of screen, press volume down until you see fastboot, then press volume up, will show starting fastboot protocols)
4) Open a command window in your /tools directory (select tools folder and shift+right click and choose it from the menu that appears in windows)
5) Type the following: fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot erase cache
6) Once that is done, type fastboot reboot or hold power+volume up (reboots device). you are now done and it should boot into android
IF ANYONE FOUND THIS HELPFUL, PLEASE SAY SO!

[Q] How to reflash kernel r14?!?!

Hello,
I got an HTC HD2
MAGLDR v27 BOYPPC rom v27, everything works great except for the wifi.
I have been told that i have to reflash kernel r14 from tyung.
I tried but i failed.
I have red the thread about the kernel but i don't get it.
Can someone please help me?

You need to be more specific first of all... I am going to assume you have MAGLDR opposed to clk. I am going to also assume you have performed all the steps prior to installing a new rom? Demanding help with no supporting information gets you nothing.
Now...
1. You need to get the kernel zip on your SD card. You do this by going to tytungs kernel thread, click on download the kernel you want, save it to your computer.
2. Move the kernel zip from your computer to your SD card.
3. Reboot your phone and hold the power button to boot into recovery.
4. In the recovery menu clear cache partition
5. Go into advanced and clear dalvik cache
6. Now go and install the kernel zip just as you did the rom itself.
7. Reboot phone
8. You are done
9. Hit My Thank You Button

akapaul26 said:
You need to be more specific first of all... I am going to assume you have MAGLDR opposed to clk. I am going to also assume you have performed all the steps prior to installing a new rom? Demanding help with no supporting information gets you nothing.
Now...
1. You need to get the kernel zip on your SD card. You do this by going to tytungs kernel thread, click on download the kernel you want, save it to your computer.
2. Move the kernel zip from your computer to your SD card.
3. Reboot your phone and hold the power button to boot into recovery.
4. In the recovery menu clear cache partition
5. Go into advanced and clear dalvik cache
6. Now go and install the kernel zip just as you did the rom itself.
7. Reboot phone
8. You are done
9. Hit My Thank You Button
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Thank you for the fast respond.
I said i used the MAGLDR version.
Anyhow, i did the things you said.
I always clear my phone also with task 29 and such.
I reboot the phone, but the startup animation keeps on going. It does not freeze.
I would like to thank you but there is no thanks button????

Nevermind, i found the thanks button!
But the phone is still in startup mode.

it's probably because you need to delete the initrd.gz file located in the .zip archive in order to flash it over a rom different than Tytung's NexusHD2. (see here)

Ah, i will try it now!

IT WORKED
Thank you!
I had red the whole thread but i didnt get it.
Thanks allot!
Now you got 2thanks! ;D
You made my day

glad to have been of help

Hijmans said:
Thank you!
I had red the whole thread but i didnt get it.
Thanks allot!
Now you got 2thanks! ;D
You made my day
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Glad you got it working! I forgot tytung uses his on initrd.

akapaul26 said:
I am going to also assume you have performed all the steps prior to installing a new rom?
Now...
1. You need to get the kernel zip on your SD card. You do this by going to tytungs kernel thread, click on download the kernel you want, save it to your computer.
2. Move the kernel zip from your computer to your SD card.
3. Reboot your phone and hold the power button to boot into recovery.
4. In the recovery menu clear cache partition
5. Go into advanced and clear dalvik cache
6. Now go and install the kernel zip just as you did the rom itself.
7. Reboot phone
8. You are done
9. Hit My Thank You Button
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hey all, 2 questions if I may ask
1. if u run allready the [06 Nov 2011][MAG/cLK] NexusHD2-Gingerbread V3.2a (GWK74)(Android 2.3.7)[tytung_r13] u need to do steps 4-5, or u can go flash kernel immediately from zip file in sd card? all things are working fine atm and dont want to mess them up
2. there r 2 kernels regarding my rom if I am not seriously mistaken
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1258110
a. kernel_tytung_r14_update.zip.
b. kernel_tytung_r14_callrec_update.zip.
which one I have to use? (i think the first)
ty for your replies

[Q] Girl back but angry

not angry, i just dont appreciate how my thread gets locked with ''search more'' when i said many times that i am NEW and would love to have HELP step by step instead of pointing me to ''tutorial'' thread where i cant understand wtf it means since im NEW.
please consider HELPING? sorry just upset, back on topic
I am currently on Nexus 7, rooted yesterday with WugFresh on 4.2.1
i really want to install cyanogenmod to have awesome themes, better ram etc. the rom.
how do i do? these tutorials = nonsense for me. or maybe give better details rather than ''3. Place on SD card'' Wtf does that mean?
4. Reboot to recovery, flash nightly_xxxx.zip, flash gapps.zip'' right, HOW? i am new.. ?
thanks yall.. xxoox

I'm here to help, but let's use PM instead or I fear this thread might get closed also

You really shouldn't be modding your Nexus if you don't know what those mean. And usually you can Google things and there's usually an answer.

Did you install twrp recovery using the toolkit?
If you did download titanium backup from the market and make a backup(only if you want apps and data saved)
download cm10.1 and gapps 20121212 boot into recover by powering down, then holding volume down and power until you get to boot loader, after use the up and down volume keys until it says recovery and use power to select.
Wait for twrp to turn on and touch backup and make a backup, next go to to wipe and format data(this deletes all apps) format cache, and then dalvic cache. After go to flash, select cm10.1 and swipe to flash, and find gapps 20121212, and swipe to flash then reboot system.
And of you made a backup with titanium backup download it and restore.
If anything goes wrong or you don't like it just wipe data cache and dalvik cache again and restore the backup you made in twrp recovery.

You can PM me as well if you need to, there's nothing too complicated about it so we'll get through it.
First you need to install a custom recovery (provided you don't already have one).
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

explosivequack said:
Did you install twrp recovery using the toolkit?
If you did download titanium backup from the market and make a backup(only if you want apps and data saved)
download cm10.1 and gapps 20121212 boot into recover by powering down, then holding volume down and power until you get to boot loader, after use the up and down volume keys until it says recovery and use power to select.
Wait for twrp to turn on and touch backup and make a backup, next go to to wipe and format data(this deletes all apps) format cache, and then dalvic cache. After go to flash, select cm10.1 and swipe to flash, and find gapps 20121212, and swipe to flash then reboot system.
And of you made a backup with titanium backup download it and restore.
If anything goes wrong or you don't like it just wipe data cache and dalvik cache again and restore the backup you made in twrp recovery.
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Thanks but I get red triangle with little droid when i choose recovery...

For some the way of learning is by being walked through a process. For example my coworker could not figure any of this out on his RAZR. I walked him through the process while also giving tips and explaining process and what things mean and do. Now he can do most in his sleep
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Astrocat said:
Thanks but I get red triangle with little droid when i choose recovery...
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That means you are using stock recovery, you need to flash a custom recovery.
Can you do that in the toolkit?
I haven't ever used toolkits so I'm not aware of the features they have.
If not you can download goo manager from the play store and flash twrp with it.
It's easier to explain than fastboot.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Fatal1ty_18_RUS said:
Looks like I'm totally being ignored by OP -_-
oh well, no luck with girls
/out
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no no no hun!! sorry im just stressed lol i will pm i will.
back on topic, i now am in clock thing recovery i dont see any flash thing?

Astrocat said:
no no no hun!! sorry im just stressed lol i will pm i will.
back on topic, i now am in clock thing recovery i dont see any flash thing?
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You need to download the CyanogenMod zip and the gapps zip (both available in the CM thread) then when you have them you go to clockworkmod recovery and select backup. Once that's done you do a "wipe data/factory reset" then once that's done select "install zip from SD card" and find your CyanogenMod zip, install that, then find your gapps zip and install that. Profit.
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nodstuff said:
You need to download the CyanogenMod zip and the gapps zip (both available in the CM thread) then when you have them you go to clockworkmod recovery and select backup. Once that's done you do a "wipe data/factory reset" then once that's done select "install zip from SD card" and find your CyanogenMod zip, install that, then find your gapps zip and install that. Profit.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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But remember to put the backup on your computer. As it will get deleted if you do you factory reset.

Logan_M said:
But remember to put the backup on your computer. As it will get deleted if you do you factory reset.
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No it won't.
Not with cwm, that's only with stock recovery or a wipe of the SD card.
Wipe data/factory reset in cwm will NOT wipe the SD card, it only wipes the app data partition, not data/media.
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Logan_M said:
But remember to put the backup on your computer. As it will get deleted if you do you factory reset.
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Negative. A factory reset does not touch data/media.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD

Astrocat said:
not angry, i just dont appreciate how my thread gets locked with ''search more'' when i said many times that i am NEW and would love to have HELP step by step instead of pointing me to ''tutorial'' thread where i cant understand wtf it means since im NEW.
please consider HELPING? sorry just upset, back on topic
I am currently on Nexus 7, rooted yesterday with WugFresh on 4.2.1
i really want to install cyanogenmod to have awesome themes, better ram etc. the rom.
how do i do? these tutorials = nonsense for me. or maybe give better details rather than ''3. Place on SD card'' Wtf does that mean?
4. Reboot to recovery, flash nightly_xxxx.zip, flash gapps.zip'' right, HOW? i am new.. ?
thanks yall.. xxoox
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Root/unlock bootloader/flash recovery, download the ROM and GAPPS if needed, put the USB cable into your MAC, connect the other side (micro USB) to the Nexus 7, copy the ROM&GAPPS to your ROM folder, drag out the cable from the device, reboot into recovery by: 1: Turning it off. 2: Hold the volume down button, hold the power button until you see Google logo, if you see Android icon and big, green Start button in the upper corner of the screen, you can stop holding the volume up button. By navigating with volume buttons, select Reboot Recovery. Make a backup, flash the ROM and GAPPS and you just flashed a ROM! It isn't so hard, is it?
Sent from my NeXus VII using XDA App

Knock it off please
Ok folks, knock it off with the comments.
Just be helpful, otherwise don't post.
MD

Even using twrp it will not wipe your backups if you do a factory restore. Even says so on the screen when you select it.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD

Astrocat said:
not angry, i just dont appreciate how my thread gets locked with ''search more'' when i said many times that i am NEW and would love to have HELP step by step instead of pointing me to ''tutorial'' thread where i cant understand wtf it means since im NEW.
please consider HELPING? sorry just upset, back on topic
I am currently on Nexus 7, rooted yesterday with WugFresh on 4.2.1
i really want to install cyanogenmod to have awesome themes, better ram etc. the rom.
how do i do? these tutorials = nonsense for me. or maybe give better details rather than ''3. Place on SD card'' Wtf does that mean?
4. Reboot to recovery, flash nightly_xxxx.zip, flash gapps.zip'' right, HOW? i am new.. ?
thanks yall.. xxoox
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Remember reading is more efficient then asking for thing that you don't understand in first place, My guide is not a full and final method to doing things. Learn how to use fastboot and adb and ull be good to go (if u want to continue to flash roms and test new things.
But hay I myself started from zero so Good Luck with ur start.
Ok i am going to reply with the step by step guide (for noobs). But remember you are risking your tablet to soft or hard brick buy doing so (Dont blame me).
1. Download WugFresh toolkit 1.6.2 (u already did that).
2. Open it and let it know your device and software version (u already did that).
3. Install drivers (u already did that).
4. Enable developers options to access adb, as guided by the toolkit (u already did that, i am hopping).
5. Click on (Unlock) Bootloader (u already did that, I am hopping).
6. Click on (root) (u already did that, i am hopping).
7. the toolkit will do all of the stuff for u and after all it will download and flash recover (probably ClockWorkMod).
8. Now u have stock with ROOT and UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER.
9. Now is the time to backup each and every thing using CWM or toolkit backup feature.
10. Download CM10.1 and gapps and copy them into memory storage.
11. Boot into recovery (turn off the tablet, then turn it on and press and hold volume down when it turns on ull see a boot menu saying bootloader, press volume up two three times untill u see recovery and press power button to enter into recovery.
12. Just to all these steps first then let me know via PM or report back in thread and ill guide u further (i am using TWRP recovery so can't guide u further into the recovery process of CWR).
P.S:This thread will be closed as before so note down the users names that are trying to help u and contact them via PM or start new thread in Q&A section.

A few people Report Problems When using ToolKits..Try Using adb and fastboot commands..they are safer and can get you out of most Problems.If you need Help Step by step then PM Me...i will help you.
Infact you can PM anyone helping you in this thread.That will be better as i am sure you will have a lot of Questions and no point in opening a thread for every Question.

As suspected moved to Q&A section

Huawei U8800 Aurora ROM Questions

Hi all!
This is my first post and I am new to rooting so I will not know as much advanced techniques/terms so please be patient.
I decided to root my phone to install a custom ROM (Thats what everyone wants, right?), more specifically to get a newer version of Android. I found the Aurora ROM by Dzo and I flashed 2.04 and it seems very fluid and fast. I didn't upgrade from the official 2.3 because I couldn't find the files. I'm really liking the ICS environment.
My first question is: How do I find/install a baseband? I want to use this as my daily ROM and I can't do much without signal.
Second, My battery indicator is not working and how do I fix this?
Thirdly, When I put the device to sleep for about 5 secs or more it will not wake up and reboots. Is this fixed with a later patch?
And lastly, What upgrade pattern should I use to get up to 5.0? (e.g. 2.04-2.5-2.6 etc or jump straight to a version and go from there)
Thanks in advance

First of All,you must install official gingerbread for install ICS.
Your problems (battery and baseband) are causing by old amss.bin (baseband) and old bootloader.
First,install official gingerbread with code name V100R001C00B518G001. If you install this version,you must not do root for install Aurora ICS.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lws54xxb3lcm7di
If you install it,You must install CWM 5.0.2.8 or CWM 5.0.2.7 or CWM 6.0.2.8 or CWM 5.5.0.4 or TWRP Recovery. My prefence is install CWM 6.0.2.8
Here is 6.0.2.8;
http://code.google.com/p/forumber-projects-for-u8800/downloads/detail?name=recovery-clockwork-6.0.2.8-2.6.35.7-u8800.img&can=2&q=
1.Download the recovery
2.Remove SD Card and delete dload folder in phone's internal memory (if exists).
3.Power on the device while pushing volume up and down buttons.
4.If the pink screen appears,connect the phone to PC and wait for detect the phone
5.Rename downloaded img file to recovery.img and copy it to image folder in mass storage in Pink Screen
6. Download latest Aurora 5.0 and update 20 and copy those files to your sd card.
7. Power On the phone while pressing volume up button.
8. Backup the system to your sd card
9. Do "Wipe data/factory set"
10.Install Aurora 5.0,then install update 20
11.Reboot the system. And that's it! Enjoy the ICS

Just one question, Do I install gingerbread without the device rooted? and do I have to wipe my phone?

TheRichboy247 said:
Just one question, Do I install gingerbread without the device rooted? and do I have to wipe my phone?
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You can install offical gingerbread on rooted ROM. You don't need to wipe because the system will do wipe automaticly

No. You do not have to wipe. But you can if you want.
To install official gingerbread, you can install it over a rooted or a non rooted device. It doesn't matter because when you install gingerbread. The device will automatically be un rooted. You would have to root your device again after installing official gingerbread.
The easiest way to root gingerbread is to use SuperOneClick. Here is a tutorial for rooting your gingerbread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420728
In the link above, just do the steps under 'Rooting the U8800 with SuperOneClick v2.3.3' and 'Installing ClockworkMod 5.5.0.4 on your U8800'.
I hope I helped. Good Luck and have fun rooting!

When I try to flash the Gingerbread ROM, It says Installation aborted. Why is this?
I am using CWM 5.5.0.4

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TheRichboy247 said:
When I try to flash the Gingerbread ROM, It says Installation aborted. Why is this?
I am using CWM 5.5.0.4
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You do not flash official firmware with CWM.
You must extract the file that you have downloaded.
After extracting it, keep going into the extracted files until you find a folder called 'dload'.
Copy this dload folder to the root of sdcard.
Now, power on your phone by pressing and holding down the power + volume up + volume down buttons all together.
The phone will automatically start installing the official android 2.3
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If you don't understand anything then you are welcome to ask me about it. I will explain it to you.
Good Luck!

rqmok said:
You do not flash official firmware with CWM.
You must extract the file that you have downloaded.
After extracting it, keep going into the extracted files until you find a folder called 'dload'.
Copy this dload folder to the root of sdcard.
Now, power on your phone by pressing and holding down the power + volume up + volume down buttons all together.
The phone will automatically start installing the official android 2.3
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If you don't understand anything then you are welcome to ask me about it. I will explain it to you.
Good Luck!
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Lol, I just massively derped. ANyways, I installed it but it won't go past the boot animation. What should I do from here?

TheRichboy247 said:
Lol, I just massively derped. ANyways, I installed it but it won't go past the boot animation. What should I do from here?
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You don't need to pass boot animation. Do this;
1.Download the recovery
2.Remove SD Card and delete dload folder in phone's internal memory (if exists).
3.Power on the device while pushing volume up and down buttons.
4.If the pink screen appears,connect the phone to PC and wait for detect the phone
5.Rename downloaded img file to recovery.img and copy it to image folder in mass storage in Pink Screen
6. Download latest Aurora 5.0 and update 20 and copy those files to your sd card.
7. Power On the phone while pressing volume up button.
8. Backup the system to your sd card
9. Do "Wipe data/factory set"
10.Install Aurora 5.0,then install update 20
11.Reboot the system.

Thank you guys so much, i am happily running Aurora ICS with no problems so far. If i have any other issues i will post to this thread or elsewhere. Thanks again!

TheRichboy247 said:
Thank you guys so much, i am happily running Aurora ICS with no problems so far. If i have any other issues i will post to this thread or elsewhere. Thanks again!
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Good Job. I hope you don't run into any kind of problem